Dead Island

What works

The introduction movies, menu, settings, picking a character, campaign, co-op, interaction with other players as well as everything else.

What does not

Sound and introduction movies if your wineprefix is not 32-bit based.

Workarounds

What was not tested

I did not complete the campaign on Linux, but I spent enough time in the game to come to a conclusion.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Originally, I installed Wine through Software Manager, ran Winetricks, installed Steam through one of the GUI options which created a separate 64-bit prefix inside .local/share/winetricks/steam/ That led to no sound and no intro movies in the game. Installing Steam manually through the official .msi file within the default 64-bit .wine prefix gave the same results. Then I completely removed .wine from the home folder, ran "export WINEARCH=win32", then "winecfg". That way I got a 32-bit based prefix, installed Steam, downloaded Dead Island and installed the libraries from its redist folder. The game launched and worked with no issues at all.